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* Netgear’s XR700 Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router features 10-gigabit ethernet >>

* Dyson wants to build a $260M hub to test its secretive EV >>
* Hulu Show ‘The First’ Details the Drama of a Near-Future Mars Misison in New Trailer >>
* Small Air Leak Detected on International Space Station >>

* China building $145 million superconducting computer that is up to 1000 times more energy efficient >>
* Big read: In Elon Musk’s world, brakes are for cars, not CEOs >>
* California kicks its climate change fight into overdrive while Trump looks the other way >>
* How the Internet of Things will transform consumerism, enterprises, and governments over the next five years >>

* Lenovo’s New Yoga Book Stretches Laptop Design >>
* Firefox will soon start blocking trackers by default >>
* Turns out, not many people change their minds because of something they see on social media >>

* Oracle Trying Hard To Make Sure Pentagon Knows Amazon Isn’t the Only Cloud Around >>
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* Your digital assistant may have tons of new features it didn’t tell you about >>

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* Samsung’s first 8K QLED TV is coming to the U.S. in October >>

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* Apple takes a step towards its own version of Google Glass >>
* Another Juno Flyby, Another Amazing Sequence Of Images Of Jupiter >>

* Major F35 flaws are being hidden so they can claim development phase is done >>
* DNA editing before birth could one day massively expand lifespans >>
* A species of fish has passed the mirror test for the first time >>
* Samsung unveils new AI-powered televisions that have 16 TIMES the number of pixels as standard HD and promise to ‘upgrade’ the quality of everything you watch to 8K >>

* These Dreams Indicate Good Mental Health (S) >>
* The Chinese Air Force just released a video of its newest and deadliest war planes — here’s what they bring to a fight >>
* India is spending $1.4 billion on its first manned space mission >>

* Is studying your gut bacteria key to good health or a waste of money? >>
* How the brain tracks time: Researchers discover the ‘neural clock’ that timestamps our experiences and memories >>
* Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age >>

* Space Art Is Causing a Ruckus Among Astronomers >>
* Is Julia the Next Big Programming Language? MIT Thinks So, as Version 1.0 Lands >>

* A 40-Year Quest Uncovers Hearing’s “Holy Grail” Protein >>
* The secret tunnels inside your head: Immune cells take shortcuts when fighting deadly inflammation rather than using the bloodstream >>
* Hayabusa’s Target Itokawa Formed 4.6 Billion Years Ago, But Then It Was Smashed Up About 1.5 Billion Years Ago >>

* Learn How To Use Google Cloud To Build AI Systems For Just $39 >>
* Pictures and Video of the SpaceX Crew Dragon >>
* Plans that require an exaFLOP AI supercomputer first are broken nuclear fusion plans >>

* Box builds a digital hub to help fight content fragmentation >>
* ‘It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined’ >>
* US Court of Appeals: An IP Address Isn’t Enough To Identify a Pirate >>

* Big Tech’s Newest Experiment in Criminal-Justice Reform >>
* India Will Launch Its Own Astronauts to Space by 2022, Government Says >>
* New Horizons Sees Its Next Target For The First Time: Ultima Thule. Flyby Happens January 1, 2019 >>

* Laser Experiment Helps Unravel Mystery of Antimatter >>
* Scientists use 3D printing to build a new prototype ‘eyeball’ that can detect changes in light levels >>
* Incredible time-lapse video reduces a three-year build for a superyacht to just FIVE MINUTES >>

* China is now using two-foot tall AI robots that look like a droid from WALL-E to teach children how to solve problems using an interactive story >>
* US Army reveals new software for robots to right themselves after falls >>
* Say hello to the new 217mph Lamborghini Aventador SVJ >>

* Brain scans show how cannabis extract may help people with psychosis >>
* Scientists Have Discovered New Type Of Brain Cell Unique To Humans >>
* Wear OS by Google: Health and help are just a swipe away >>

* For a Bright Future of Work, Focus on Purpose >>
* Money for Nothing; Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In future, who will still work for a paycheck? >>
* 13 Big VR Games To Look Out For This Fall >>

* VR Training Program Now Required At Children’s Hospital Los Angeles >>
* The last Blockbuster: what we really lose when video stores shut down >>
* How Should We Regulate Facial Recognition? >>

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* I’ve been using Samsung’s new $1,500 Galaxy Note 9, and it’s the only smartphone actually worthy of its high price tag >>
* Mistakes we made in our Company’s First 8 Years >>

* Using DevOps in the Cloud for Improved Productivity >>
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* The Artificial Neural Networks Handbook: Part 1 >>

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* China’s ban on cryptocurrency promotional events now extends beyond the capital to Guangzhou >>
* How Reinventing Software Testing Can Transform Your Business…and Change the World >>
* Diamonds Are Forever. Judges Are the Next Best Thing >>

* Mobile Robots Cooperate to 3D Print Large Structures >>
* The world’s first self-driving grocery delivery cars are on roads in San Jose >>
* Google for India: Building services for every Indian, in their language >>

* The cars have eyes: the self-driving ‘eye pod’ that stares at pedestrians >>
* Microsoft touts more AI-powered OneDrive for Business and SharePoint features due later this year >>
* SpaceX’s 1st ‘Block 5’ Rocket: A Tale of 2 Launches >>

* Breathing polluted air may make you worse at maths and language >>
* AI can make high-definition fake videos from just a simple sketch >>

* Google partners with Indian banks to provide online loans >>
* Google lets you create a sticker version of yourself with selfies >>
* Google updates its speech services for developers >>

* China Just Set New National Launch Record While Putting Up Two More Beidou Navigation Satellites >>
* Pixm takes on phishing attacks with deep learning using Apache MXNet on AWS >>
* Look At All The Aerosols Pushed Into The Atmosphere, From Fires, Volcanoes And Pollution. Even Sea Salt Thrown Into The Air From Hurricanes >>

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* Microsoft is the right company to build the “Netflix of gaming” >>

* Continuous innovation, using tech ‘superpowers’ for good >>
* In a Shift in Driverless Strategy, Uber Deepens Its Partnership With Toyota >>
* World Bank’s blockchain bond raises $110 million >>

* What Ducks Hear Underwater >>
* Autonomous grocery delivery service makes its way to California >>
* Now is the time to start thinking about AI’s impact on xenophobia >>

* NASA’s planning to send people back to the Moon’s surface in about a decade >>
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* You have to choose between Software Delivered on Time and Good Software >>
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* The Artificial Neural Networks Handbook: Part 2 >>
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* Creating Serverless Microservices With AWS Lambda and Node.js >>

* Chinese downloads of police apps surge after latest Didi ride-hitching death >>
* 15 Years Ago, We Sequenced the Human Genome. Now We Can 3D Map It >>

* China is building a police station powered by AI, not humans >>
* We’ve Finally Created an AI Network That’s Been Decades in the Making >>
* Spear-toting robot can guard coral reefs against invasive lionfish >>

* We’re Almost Able to Cool Antimatter. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. >>
* World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand >>

* Artificial Intelligence Will Serve Humans, Not Enslave Them >>
* We Are Merging With Robots. That’s a Good Thing >>
* Self-driving cars: New book looks at how we’re racing toward the future, not always safely >>

* What are Sidechains and Childchains? >>
* NASA’s terrifying visualization of atmospheric aerosols >>
* AutoX is using its self-driving vehicles to deliver groceries >>

* A second Amazon Go cashier-less store has opened in downtown Seattle >>
* This New Supplement Could Change the Way You Age >>
* How to Make a Robot Use Theory of Mind >>
* How neutron star collisions could help aliens make contact with Earth >>

* Flashing checkerboard patterns let us see a picture that doesn’t exist >>
* This Is A 3d Map Of 400,000 Hot Massive Stars Located Within 10,000 Light-years From The Sun, Thanks To Gaia! >>
* E.T., Phone Earth? How Neutron-Star Crashes Could Help Aliens Call Us >>

* The best 3D printers you can buy >>
* Microsoft’s ‘Xbox All Access’ Lets You Pay for a Console in Monthly Installments >>
* Sun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge >>

* Video shows the amazing reverse-filter that stops small particles but lets large ones through >>
* Dinosaur DNA clues unpicked by researchers at University of Kent >>

* Deepfakes for dancing: you can now use AI to fake those dance moves >>
* Bill Gates Argues ‘Supply and Demand’ Doesn’t Apply To Software >>
* China Built the World’s Largest Telescope. Then Came the Tourists >>

* Fire on Earth >>
* Cryptocurrency and blockchain bring Asia funds to the forefront of U.S. tech >>
* US election campaign technology from 2008 to 2018, and beyond >>

* Air Conditioning needs to be as efficient as possible >>
* Natural gas and renewables will be most of US power and US will export oil, coal and gas >>
* Meet Mr. Steven, SpaceX’s Rocket Nose-Cone-Catching Boat >>

* Watch NASA’s X-Ray-Hunting Pulsar Detector Do a Cosmic Dance in Space >>
* With The Help Of AI, You Too Can Dance Like Bruno Mars >>
* The Honor Play is a gaming phone with ‘GPU Turbo’ and AI-powered rumble >>

* Gamescom 2018 Hands-On: Crazy Machines VR Needs Just A Little More Invention >>
* 9 fascinating things I learned while coding up the rules of a board game >>
* The Problem With Machine Learning In Healthcare >>

* How to Print an Electric Motor >>
* In 2019, China and Russia will start using floating nuclear reactors for oil and gas rigs and military bases >>
* New $36,000 farm drone sprays pesticides and fertilisers in just 15 MINUTES (1/4 time it takes a human) >>

* In the Age of IoT, the FCC’s Way of Valuing Radio Spectrum Is Broken >>
* Naval Power, oil and debt were keys to world power but cyber, space and finance keys to future >>
* $700 billion case to fight food waste >>

* US plans to build and man a Lunar Gateway Platform by 2024 >>
* Open Water fMRI will be able to read your mind >>
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* Magic Leap’s first developer conference is coming to LA in October >>
* Scientists Deliver a Longer-Lasting Lithium-Oxygen Battery >>
* World Bank launches first bond instrument built on a blockchain with the Australian Bank >>

* Machine learning and AI technologies and platforms at AWS >>
* An End-to-End Approach for Scaling Up Spectral Clustering >>
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* US airports’ new facial recognition tech spots first imposter >>
* AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers >>

* Alphabet puts down more roots in China with local Waymo office >>
* Audi’s PB 18 E-Tron is a supercar spaceship >>

* Water management is complex and dynamic and requires better understanding and measurement >>
* Electrons that behaves like light in twelve-sided graphene quasicrystal >>
* TorrentFreak is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource >>

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* ‘Fortnite’ will introduce a ‘robust competition system’ in the fall >>
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* ‘Lucifer’ Season 4: The Mysterious Priest Has Just Been Named And What Will Eve’s New Role Signal For Lucifer? >>
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* Scientists find cheap way to turn gases into liquids >>
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* To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair >>

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* DJI’s Mavic 2 brings key camera upgrades to the folding drone >>
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* China’s Bold Moon Sample-Return Mission Will Target a Young Volcanic Plain >>
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* ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ a Durable Hit for CBS, Will End in 2019 >>

* China is still 10-20 years from matching US economy and 20-40 years from matching US military >>
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* NASA Is Making an AI-Based GPS for Space >>

* Asteroid mining for water with a few hundred spacecraft can be profitable >>
* Algorithms provide more performance gain than hardware in many cases >>
* Carbon nanotube NRAM computer memory will start to ship in 2019 >>

* Painting created by an AI ‘artist’ goes up for auction for the first time and is expected to fetch up to $10,000 >>
* It’s too soon to tell if robots help autistic children’s social skills >>
* Clay found only in Oregon may offer hope in tackling the growing threat of antibiotic resistance >>

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